SecondJon @SecondJon@qoto.org

@Peaceandprosperity grade question!

when I was younger I had a children's Bible, a youth Bible, but the best for me was a Study Bible. It had some intos with background on each book, maps in the back, etc. It was with a translation that has since been updated in ways I don't align with given my background in Bible education, translation, and textual criticism.

Now I use a wide margin Bible when I can now the date as we lead our family, year after year, reading through the Bible out loud every year, and can jot down some notes. It's ESV, which is a good translation and what is read from at our church so it's easy to read together.

(I also use the Greek New Testament to cross reference and double check things, but that's probably not what you're needing right now 😉)

What translation does your kiddo read in the app? What do they use at church? Go with that translation.

(Don't do a paraphrase like The Message, getting that through an app if needed is enough.)

@steele found a source for context:

“We also have homegrown criminals that push people into subways that hit elderly ladies on the back of the head with a baseball bat when they’re not looking, that are absolute monsters,” Trump told reporters inside the Oval Office...

“I’d like to include them in the group of people to get them out of the country,” added Trump. The president emphasized that he would only do so by following the law, though he admitted, “I don’t know what the laws are.” Trump explained that Attorney General Pam Bondi is studying the law on the matter...

It follows similar statements from Trump’s White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, who said last week that the president was looking into deporting “heinous, violent criminals” who are U.S. citizens to El Salvador, adding, “if there’s a legal pathway to do that.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/homegrowns-next-trump-provokes-fears-182000185.html

https://mstdn.social/@carrieberry/114305364367737312

A perfect example of outsourcing all critical thinking to your news sources.

@steele yeah, I don't follow any of these guys specifically.

My take is that posts that could have been published as hit pieces from one political party's attack wing against their political opponents lack both honesty and creativity and don't invite others in to the conversation or encourage any semblance of critical thinking.

I do wonder what's the purpose of messages with that tone. Screaming into the sky? Self affirmation? Building an echo chamber?

It's no way to change what needs to be changed.

And... Yes, I see this as a problem no matter which side it's coming from.

Maybe that's not how the post was intended to read. That's how it hit me

https://mastodon.social/@randahl/114278493420601922

I get it now. Trump is bad because he's not raising tariffs enough, and tariffs punish other countries, not one's own.

@steele is the same true of anyone on the other side of the political spectrum?

I'm old enough to remember news networks declaring a constitutional crisis over the covfefe typo. Signalgate seems to be covfefe 2.0.

So... Those who won the electoral college vote and the popular vote are working to decrease the spending while increasing transparency of the federal government.

Those who supported the losing candidates say this shrinking of government and more visibility is... The end of democracy, fascism, and a reason to out themselves as terrorists, blowing things up, doxxing people who... drive electric cars?

CNN currently showing a special on a DOGE employee who posted to instagram during business hours. Wildly inappropriate, "insulting," "Are you kidding me!?"

I know this is an attack on DOGE, but... the reason is because... of government waste.

So CNN is sort of asking for DOGE to DOGE even harder.

Weird argument.

Oh, tariffs as foreign election interference. It's a bold strategy, let's see how that works out for them... No one show them the popular vote...

@threalist my favorite nonprofit has never accepted a dollar or government funds. A quick web search found The Salvation Army's annual report which shows they receive over $640,000 from the federal government.

Doesn't mean it's fraud and abuse. It's just a funding decision large nonprofits need to make.

Ottawa removing half of federal internal trade barriers in response to tariff threats from the US

"Removing all internal trade protections could lower prices by up to 15 per cent, boost productivity by up to seven per cent and add up to $200 billion to the domestic economy, according to Anand."

Comment: what an amazing move. Why has the Canadian government kept these anti Canadian regulations in place until now? I guess.... The Trump Effect is making Canada better.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/anand-ottawa-removing-cfta-exceptions-1.7465125

Hahaha. The article says nothing has been banned, but I appreciate the outage in defense of JD Vance. The wild outage about rules being applied evenly, even to the VP is hilarious.

The narrative has shifted! What was "Trump will fire anyone who isnt loyal to him personally, which makes him Hitler" is now, "Trump is laying off people regardless of their loyalty, and that's...uh...worse...somehow"

😂 The AP takes on the #Trump #doge claims about suicidal security improper payments, reporting that according to the Biden administration ONLY "$71.8 billion" in was fraudulent and that the agency "clawed back" a whopping $31 billion. Yep, they clawed back a huge 0.05% of the waste? (it's very early, is that decimal right?)

The article says most of those billions were sent to loving people, but the goes on to say the data is wildly inaccurate without dates of birth, so no one knows. And the Biden admin saw the $71.8 BILLION and assessed that it would take $9 million to fix the system to stop the waste so decided not to.

Way to teach Trump a lesson. Nothing to see here, only $71.8 billion in waste, hardly anything.